Diatenes igneipicta (Lower, 1902)
 (formerly known as Polydesma igneipicta)
CALPINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Diatenes igneipicta
(Photo: copyright of Brett and Marie Smith, at Ellura Sanctuary, South Australia)

The adult moths are rusty brown with a complex pattern of darker and paler wiggly lines on the wings, and black spots along the costa of each forewing. The moths have a wingspan of about 4 cms.

Diatenes igneipicta
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been found in Australia in

  • Northern Territory,
  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales,
  • Victoria,
  • South Australia, and
  • Western Australia.

    Diatenes igneipicta
    underside
    (Photo: copyright of Brett and Marie Smith, at Ellura Sanctuary, South Australia)

    Further reading :

    Oswald B. Lower,
    Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 26 (1902), p. 656.

    Peter Marriott,
    Moths of Victoria - Part 8,
    Night Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA(B)    ,
    Entomological Society of Victoria, 2017, pp. 14-15.

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    (written 14 Januaryr 2017, updated 18 August 2019, 12 August 2021)